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...bureaucrats are allowed each day about a pound of rice, an ounce of meat, a few vegetables, a bit of milk, coffee and a couple of cigarettes. In the private street stalls, groceries are abundant but very expensive. There, rice might cost 150 times as much as in the state-run shops...
...though, the effort is not going well. For seven intensive weeks, American and Japanese negotiators have been wrangling over how to increase American access to Japan's telecommunications market. The talks are in preparation for the landmark April 1 conversion of Japan's national telephone system from a state-run monopoly into a privately owned company. This will create a vast opening for makers of such sophisticated telecommunications gear as satellites and digital switches, together with services like electronic cash transfers. American companies hanker for the business and feel they can keep their prices competitive even with the strong dollar...
...administrative terms the web of central control emanates from a core of 64 federal ministries and 23 state committees. Those entities own and operate 50,000 enterprises and dominate a state-run labor union network of 132 million employees. The tentacles of central planning are duplicated in each of the nation's 15 union republics and 20 autonomous republics, and extend downward to the oblast (province) and raion (local administrative unit) levels...
...hoarding. As soon as it became apparent that prices on 90% of the nation's output would be allowed to float, such products as fish, milk and woolens either became more costly or vanished in some parts of China. Eggs, which had been in plentiful supply, disappeared from state-run stores; they remained available, but expensive, on the free market...
...pointing up U.S. Welterweight Mark Breland's first-bout unsteadiness. Equestrian Commentator Tad Coffin, a former U.S. gold medalist, described the multinational contenders in his sport with impressive authority and fairness. (Soviet coverage has been more one-sided than ABC's: its state-run TV has carried no footage at all of the Games...